A talented pensioner from Nantwich has researched and hand-built his own scale-model of a “Crewe Tractor”.
Gerald Newbrook, aged 76 from Blakelow, spent many hours putting together his creation.
Reaseheath College students in Nantwich commemorated the 100th anniversary of the World War One Armistice with poignant displays of what the significant anniversary means to them.
Activities across college culminated with a display of 1,400 crosses made by construction students and laid out by countryside students on the college’s main lawn to spell the words ‘Thank You’.
People will pack the streets of Nantwich tomorrow to pay their respects on the centenary of the end of World War One.
And today we publish a list of those men from Nantwich who gave their lives between 1914-1918.
The family of a soldier killed in World War One will be at Malbank School in Nantwich for a moving memorial ceremony, 100 years after his death.
A War Memorial outside the school on Welsh Row details the death of Private Griffiths, who was a former Malbank pupil, during the Great War.
Nantwich War Memorial looks set to be officially ‘listed’ by Historic England as a site of ‘special architectural or historic interest’.
The move to list the memorial in the town square on High Street is part of the Government’s plan for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, which takes place in November 2018.
Two Brine Leas School pupils in Nantwich embarked on a moving visit with their teacher to the World War One Battlefields as part of a Government scheme.
Here, George Clark and Elizabeth Smith write about their experience.
By Claire Faulkner
Marking the 100th anniversary of World War 1, Birdsong at Crewe Lyceum is an incredibly poignant and touching production.
Adapted from Sebastian Faulks’ novel by Rachel Wagstaff, the play tells the story of ‘Stephen’, a young English soldier and his continuous search for ‘Isabelle’, the love of his life.
Nantwich Museum has two talks taking place in March.
On Saturday 14 March, Rev John Whitehead will speak on The Staffordshire Hoard and the Realm of Mercia.
The Mayor of Nantwich travelled to Raunheim in Germany to help cement a link between two towns – and pay tribute to victims of World War One.
Cllr Christine Farrall visited Raunheim to take part in a commemoration event to mark the centenary of the Great War.
Remembrance Day will take on a special poignancy for a governor at a primary school near Nantwich when three generations of his family mark the 100th anniversary of World War One.
Fred Wright, chair of the governors at Sound Primary, will remember the fallen, including his own uncle and nine other pupils from the small rural school.
A Nantwich war hero who earned the Victoria Cross is to have a commemorative stone laid in his honour. Stanley Henry Boughey will be remembered in the town as part of the World War 1 centenary events in 2014.
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